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The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science and the Leader of the Christian Science Church.

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Excerpt from “The Life of Mary Baker Eddy” by Sibyl Wilbur, 1929, pages 189-191:

[Mrs. Mary Baker Glover’s] first pupils came from the shoe shops. . . .The students who were drawn together were workers; their hands were stained with the leather and tools of the day’s occupation;. . . .They could not come to Mrs. Glover in the daytime, for their days were full of toil. At night, then, these first classes met, and it was in the heat of July and August. In the barely furnished upper chamber a lamp was burning, . . . .and from the common over the way the hum of the careless and free, . . . invaded the quiet of the room. Yet that quiet was permeated by the voice of a teacher at whose words the hearts of those workmen burned within them. . . .Mary Baker laid her finger upon the central motive of life those summer evenings on Lynn Common, and the response was a realization of divine consciousness which reached throughout the world, not immediately, but gradually, persistently as the years passed. And that moment of exquisite tenderness evoked in the humble upper chamber seems destined to swell into an eon, where time melts into eternity; for it was in such a moment that the understanding of divine consciousness was imparted.

“God is no respecter of persons,” St. Peter discovered. He had seen the despised Nazarene impart this consciousness to the fishermen on the shores of Galilee. The shoe-worker from his dingy bench, . . . saw the walls of his limitation melt, and experienced the inrush of being where the lilies of annunciating spring. To these students Mary Baker was not somber, austere, or formidable. She was invariably interested and interesting, possessing a sympathy which went deep down to the heart of things. She rebuked sin and sickness alike and there was an invariableness about her queries and her eyes which searched their lives. Some could not endure such testing and fell away; others stood fast and experienced amazing results in their lives. There were healings of consumption, of tumor, of dropsy, and other extreme cases of disease made by these students, and such results were so amazing to the students that some of them were confounded by their very success. (Published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, Boston, MA.)

Excerpt from We knew Mary Baker Eddy, First Series 1943, The Christian Science Publishing Society, Boston, MA., "Impressions of Our Leader," by Bliss Knapp, pages 55-56 and 63-64:

Whether we know it or not, we today are being tested in regard to the teachings of Mary Baker Eddy. Are they from heaven, or of men? Those who think of her as just the daughter of Mark Baker might regard her as only another religious leader; but Mrs. Eddy explained her own place in Biblical prophecy, even as Jesus had explained his place in prophecy on the way to Emmaus.

We are familiar with Mrs. Eddy’s statement (Miscellany, p. 120), "Those who look for me in person, or elsewhere than in my writings, lose me instead of find me." But she also says (ibid., p. 133), "My book is not all you know of me." And why? Because the remainder of what we can know of her true selfhood must be found in the Bible, in both the Old and the New Testament. . . .Mrs. Eddy has said (ibid., p.143), "It is self-evident that the discoverer of an eternal truth cannot be a temporal fraud."

I told Mrs. Eddy that she is our Key Flower. She has unlocked the treasures of heaven; and no one knows anything of Christian Science except as it has come through her. If we wish those heavenly treasures to remain real and demonstrable, we must never permit our Leader to be separated in our thought from her teachings.

Her letter in response is in part as follows: "Your story and its semblance are sweeter than birds and blossoms that I long for; and to think that you love God, and love me by way of remembrance and fidelity, fills my lone heart, feeds my hungry sense of nothing, with home and Heaven. I wish I could do more for you, but that is selfish for it would give me much pleasure. Let me wish only that my prayers for you are righteous, then I know the result will rest in sweet hope of your prosperity, growth in grace, and the knowledge of infinite Love, where no arrow wounds the dove, where are no partings, no pain."

Excerpt from We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Third Series, 1953, “Reminiscences of Mary Baker Eddy,” by Annie M. Knott, pages 79-80, published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, Boston, MA:

Towards the close of her remarks [Mary Baker Eddy] said that we must never fear evil, no matter what the seeming might be. And then with a radiant smile, she added that her students thought too much about evil, and often in belief gave it too much power. She went on to say that when error knocks at the door, they sometimes open the door to see what it wants, but Mother did not do that; she knew in advance what it wanted and kept the door shut; but that after her students had opened the door, they had to get the intruder out, and the great thing was to keep error out. At the close of her remarks, before saying good-bye to us she said: “If you, my dear students, could but see the grandeur of your outlook, the infinitude of your hope, and the infinite capabilities of your being, you would do what? You would let error destroy itself.”
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From Miscellany, MRS. EDDY'S CHRISTMAS MESSAGE, December 25, 1909:

MY HOUSEHOLD

Beloved: — A word to the wise is sufficient. Mother wishes you all a happy Christmas, a feast of Soul and a famine of sense.

Lovingly thine,

MARY BAKER EDDY

From Miscellaneous Writings* page 383, by Mary Baker Eddy:
 
The elements of earth beat in vain against the immortal parapets of this Science. Erect and eternal, it will go on with the ages, go down the dim posterns of time unharmed, and on every battle-field rise higher in the estimation of thinkers and in the hearts of Christians.

From Mary Baker Eddy: Her Mission and Triumph* by Julia Michael Johnston, page 183:

In the depths of her consciousness Mrs. Eddy knew that in her discovery of Christian Science was fulfilled the Bible prophecy of a woman who would bring forth a man child to rule all nations with the power of God (Revelation 12:5). Passing years are confirming her prescience with ever-increasing evidence of spiritual healing and freedom from finiteness among men. With patience and tolerance for all, with tender compassion and healing power, with love unfeigned and impartial, with simplicity and sincerity, with vision and strength of destiny, the woman divinely foretold fulfilled her mission. She wrote in "Miscellaneous Writings" (p. 158), "As of old, I stand with sandals on and staff in hand, waiting for the watchword and the revelation of what, how, whither."
 
* Published by the Christian Science Publishing Society, Boston, MA.

From We Knew Mary Baker Eddy, Second Series, "The Star in My Crown of Rejoicing" by C. Lulu Blackman, pages 4-7, published by The Christian Science Publishing Society, Boston, MA.:
 
When [Mrs. Eddy] entered the classroom, I saw her for the first time. Intuitively, the members of the class rose at her entrance, and remained standing until she was seated. She made her way to a slightly raised platform, turned, and faced us. She wore an imported black satin dress heavily beaded with tiny black jet beads, black satin slippers beaded, and had on her rarely beautiful diamonds. These she spoke of in one of the later sessions. She stood before us, slight, graceful of carriage, and exquisitely beautiful. Then, still standing, she faced her class as one who knew herself to be a teacher by divine right. She was every inch the teacher. She turned to the student at the end of the first row and taking direct mental cognizance of this one, plainly knocked at the door of his thought. It was as if a question had been asked and answered and a benediction given. Then her eyes rested on the next in order and the same recognition was made. This continued until each member of the class was included. No audible word voiced her purely mental contact. In this class there were those who knew her and loved her — who had been previously taught by her and were trusted helpers upon whom she called. There were those who doubted and questioned, and still others who, even then in the classroom, seemed swayed by antagonism and said within themselves: "This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be our’s" (Mark 12:7).
 
There is no question but that the mentality of the class, individual and collective, was uncovered to her. She felt its challenge, and she met it clear-eyed and undismayed. It was as though she dismissed something from her thought, separated herself from the mental contact, and then lifting her eyes in prayer, with one accord, the Lord’s Prayer was spoken. The voice of the class said, "Our Father which art in heaven." As one with the class, and yet distinct from it, we heard these words in Mrs. Eddy’s voice, "Our dear Father which art in heaven." These were the first words I heard her speak. They were arresting, compelling. There was a lilt of joy in her voice; I had the impression of a child who was unafraid, and a subtle but clear assurance was with me that she dwelt consciously, confidently "in the secret place of the most High" (Psalm 91). It was not as though she had gone to the Father in prayer, but rather as though, because she was with the Father, she prayed. In days that followed she gave us the Christian Science teachings on the subject of prayer, but this experience has remained with me as one of my most precious memories. The incident was a "living illustration," and added something that conveyed the very essence of her attitude on prayer.